...keels tracing a line of pearl upon the bright, green water. In time your own turn comes, and as you are borne along the Grand Canal, the attention is...of careless neglect and unresisted dilapidation is everywhere plainly visible. Indeed, many of these stately structures are occupied as hotels and lodging-houses...

...the love of movement and the love of repose. There ¡- no noise, no fatigue, no danger, no dust. It U managed with such skill and so little apparent effort,...it really seems to glide and turn by its own will." This position of V. in the midst of waters, gives it indeed a singular appearance from a distance....

...filling the air with their streams of undulating music. Everything is dreamlike and unsubstantial—a fairy pageant floating upon the waters; a city of...of careless neglect and unresisted dilapidation is everywhere too plainly visible. Indeed, many of these stately structures are occupied as hotels and...

...Everything is dreamlike and unsubstantial— a fairy pageant floating upon the waters ; a city of cloudlaud rather than of the earth. The gondola itself, in which...of careless neglect and unresisted dilapidation is everywhere too plainly visible. Indeed, many of these stately structures are occupied as hotels and...

...weave the spell in which his thoughts and senses are involved. No form of locomotion ever gratifies so well the two warring tendencies of the human soul...of careless neglect and unresisted dilapidation is everywhere too plainly visible. Indeed, many of these stately structures are occupied as hotels and...